Spring Courtyard Forbidden Pet

"The Queen has something to deal with, Miss Ye, please rest in the Princess's Palace."

Yin Xiang said with disdain, "Besides, your attire is not suitable for an audience with the Empress. If it weren't for the help of the Imperial Master, you would never see the Empress' heels in your life."

Ye Zhen didn't want to chat with her.

After getting off the sedan chair, she saw that the courtyard was quiet and simple, with only a few palace maids inside and outside. However, the dense walls of the courtyard made her feel depressing. In addition, she was worried and restless, so she didn't realize that she had been in for so long and no one had served her tea.

Yinxiang closed the door when she left. She could still hear footsteps outside, but Ye Zhen didn't pay any attention to it. Her mind was full of what Li Xuan said in front of the grave. She wished she could find any clues and figure out everything.

The person who died for him came from the palace and his identity was not public.

Marquis Dingyuan has been avoiding power all his life. Ye Zhen couldn't think of any other reason why he would risk bringing it back to the palace except that it was related to the emperor.

Since she is disguised as a maid to hide from others, she must be the person to be protected. Could it be the emperor's illegitimate child?

If Ye Zhen guessed correctly, the target of the assassination should be that person, but Li Xuan said that the assassin's target was himself.

This point overturned all of Ye Zhen's speculations.

She rubbed her temples and tried to drink some tea to calm herself down, only to realize something was wrong.

There were only tables and chairs in the room, the doors and windows were closed, and no one served tea or snacks. Even if Meng Qianru disliked her, she would not do such a disgraceful thing.

At this time, Ye Zhen still didn't know the seriousness of the matter.

This room faces east and has no bright light. Ye Zhen walked to the door and pushed it gently. As expected, it was locked from the outside and the windows were also sealed from the outside.

Is this Meng Qianru's intention or the Queen's instruction?

Although Ye Zhen was afraid, she did not make a big fuss because she knew that making a fuss was useless. Since they had trapped her, they must have some ulterior motive. She just needed to wait patiently for them to show up.

There is no other way.

But because she was worried about Li Xuan, she couldn't remain calm as she wanted.

Realizing that I was trapped with only one chair to sit on, time seemed to be very long, and every moment that passed became a torment.

Ye Zhen pricked up her ears to listen to the noise outside, and gradually she could no longer hear even the footsteps.

The silence, so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, made her feel anxious and uneasy.

After an unknown amount of time, a strange fragrance entered his nose, followed by a numbing sensation in his limbs. Ye Zhen suddenly had an idea and fell to the ground, knocking over a chair with quite a bit of noise.

Ever since she was drugged by the love potion again in Hanzhou last time, Ye Zhen has been carrying a sachet with her. Inside the sachet is the priceless Fiery Flower, which can cure all poisons.

More importantly, if she was helpless, the poison would be transferred to Li Xuan, and she couldn't and didn't want to continue to implicate him.

Soon, there was a sound of the door unlocking.

A scent different from Li Xuan's came from the ancestor of sandalwood, it was Meng Qianru.

She circled around Ye Zhen before speaking, "What's so good about her that makes Second Master think about her all the time."

Yinxiang replied, "She is just a lowly person. I heard that she was poisoned by love and sent to the Second Master's room on the day of the banquet at the Marquis' Mansion."

"It must have been then that the Second Master's soul was seduced."

"shameless."

Meng Qianru clenched her fists and tapped Ye Zhen's cheek with her toes. She couldn't tell whether she felt hatred or envy. "Tie him up."

"It would be best if the Crown Prince can succeed. If not, you can use her to threaten the Second Master."

"No." Meng Qianru's eyes were cold, "He is not the second master of the Marquis' Mansion."

When Meng Qianru thought that the person she had been trying to please all these years was not the young man who had been chasing after her, she felt ashamed and angry, and full of hatred.

When Yinxiang tied Ye Zhen's hands behind her back with a rope, she saw the silver bracelet on her wrist.

There was a hint of viciousness in Meng Qianru's eyes. She took out a silk handkerchief and wiped the dust off her nails. She raised her eyebrows and said, "It's boring to stay here. Let's splash some water on her to wake her up."

Ye Zhen prepared herself mentally, but she still couldn't breathe after being poured with a basin of cold water. The water went into her ears and nose, choking her throat, and she coughed so hard that her heart and lungs ached.

The moment he opened his eyes, his gaze fell on Meng Qianru's silk handkerchief.

"If he saw this, he would be heartbroken." Meng Qianru bent down and stretched out her bright red nails to draw a circle along Ye Zhen's cheek.

Ye Zhen shrank back, acting like a prisoner, and said tremblingly, "The princess and I have no grudges in the past or today, why are you making things difficult for me?"

Meng Qianru smiled coldly, and her golden hairpins shone with a cold light, which made people shudder.

"No grudges? He just blindly protects you and even tramples on my dignity in front of others to honor you. Ye Zhen, you really deserve to die."

Ye Zhen said, "So at the Spring Festival Banquet, the princess couldn't wait to smear poison on my wound."

"And the assassin who wanted to kill me in the suburbs that day was not Liu An or Prince Yu, but the princess's handiwork."

Meng Qianru's pupils trembled.

Ye Zhen added, "The person that Prince Yu's guard really likes is not Fang Jing, but you, the princess. And the Shu brocade handkerchief that suddenly appeared in Niu Xiaobao's mother's possession was also given by the princess."

The cool water flowed down Ye Zhen's cheeks to her chin, and then fell drop by drop. The crystal clear water made her look like a lotus emerging from the water.

Meng Qianru's eyes were full of fire. She pinched Ye Zhen's cheeks tightly. When she saw that she couldn't breathe, she laughed, "Yeah, I didn't kill you so many times. You are really lucky."

"But no one will be able to protect you from now on."

All the doubts in Ye Zhen's heart were resolved, and even deeper fear was revealed in her eyes.

When Prince Yu left the capital, he handed over his men in the dark to Meng Qianru. The two of them must have something to threaten each other. Their collusion meant that Prince Yu had not admitted defeat.

"My princess, aren't you afraid that one day you will be exposed and despised by the world?"

"Second Master at least respects you and the Meng family."

It would have been fine if Li Xuan'an wasn't mentioned. As soon as this name was mentioned, Meng Qianru's eyes suddenly turned red and she screamed hysterically, "He is not Li Xuan'an!"

"He deceived everyone, including me!"

"There is no teardrop mole at the corner of Li Xu'an's eye!"

Ye Zhen's breath was choked, and in confusion she thought of Li Chengge's wet nurse, Zhang Ma, whom she met outside Hanzhou City!

If there was enough time, Ye Zhen might be able to figure it out, but right now, let alone thinking, it was good enough that she could breathe normally.

As their eyes met, Ye Zhen's expression remained calm, "Who told you that, Princess? Isn't it too hasty to judge a young master of a marquisate by a teardrop mole?"

Meng Qianru did not change her attitude because of her words, but recalled the past, "Come to think of it, it was only since that little maid came to his side that he had a teardrop mole at the corner of his eye."

"He used to chase me and was always behind me, but I didn't pay much attention to him and believed his lies."

"At that time, he came up to me and told me that he had a teardrop mole and asked me if it looked good."

"I laughed at him for not being manly at all."

Meng Qianru thought about the past and realized that Li Xuan had really become a different person. Whether in temperament or behavior, others just thought that he had become more stable after practicing Taoism.

But no matter how much a person changes, he will never become so unfamiliar.

Meng Qianru dug her nails into her palms. "If it weren't for Li Chengge's nurse's words, I don't know how long I would have been deceived by him."

"He deceived Your Majesty, deceived the people of Great Zhou, deceived the Qing clan... Of course, whether he was just reckless or Marquis Dingyuan was also involved, I believe Your Majesty can judge for himself."